The February 28 Popular Leagues (Spanish: Ligas Populares 28 de Febrero, abbreviated LP-28) was a mass movement in El Salvador. LP-28 was launched in September 1977 by the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), functioning as its mass front.[1][2][3][4] The name referred to the February 28, 1977 massacre of ERP supporters, killed at Plaza Libertad in San Salvador during a protest against electoral fraud in the 1977 Salvadoran presidential election.[5][6] LP-28 had some 5,000 to 10,000 members.[7][8] Its following was largely based among peasants in Morazán Department.[8] Leoncio Pichinte was the general secretary of LP-28.[9]
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